Hair washing apparatus

ABSTRACT

The present invention provides a hydraulic moving up and down type hair washing apparatus which is preferable to a barber shop or a beauty salon in the design.  
     A hydraulic unit  30  to be a drive unit for a hair washing basin hydraulic cylinder  4  which moves up and down a hair washing basin  1  and a seat hydraulic cylinder  6  which moves up and down a hair washing seat  20  is provided inside a cabinet  40  placed on a back surface of the hair washing apparatus, whereby pipe arrangement between the hair washing unit  10  and the hydraulic unit  30  is contained under the floor.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

[0001] The present invention relates to a hair washing apparatus whichis used at a barber shop or a beauty salon when a hair washingprocessing is performed, and more particularly, to a hydraulic moving upand down type hair washing apparatus in which a hair washing basin and ahair washing seat are moved up and down.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[0002] Conventionally, when a hair washing processing is performed at abarber shop or a beauty salon by a person who performs a hair washingprocessing, in order to reduce burdens of the person who performs hairwashing processing and a person under hair washing during the hairwashing processing, a hair washing apparatus, in which a hair washingbasin, at which hair washing is performed by the person who performswashing processing and a hair washing seat on which the person underhair washing is seated are moved up and down by a hydraulic cylinder, isemployed. As a prior art, a hair washing apparatus disclosed in JapanesePatent Application No. 2000-224445 is cited as an example.

[0003] Hereinafter, a prior art hair washing apparatus will be describedwith reference to FIGS. 2 and 3. FIG. 2 is a front perspective view ofthe prior art hair washing apparatus. FIG. 3 is a schematic viewillustrating a construction of the prior art hair washing apparatus.

[0004] In FIG. 2, according to the prior hair washing apparatus, a hairwashing seat 20, on which the person under hair washing is seated, isconnected to a hair washing unit 10 having a hair washing basin 1, atwhich hair washing is performed by the person who performs hair washingprocessing, via a seat support arm 7. The hair washing basin 1 and thehair washing seat 20 are driven to be moved up and down, respectively bya hydraulic unit 30 which is provided on a base part 2.

[0005] A construction of the hair washing apparatus will be describedwith reference to FIG. 3.

[0006] The hair washing unit 10 is constituted by a frame column whichhas side faces of parallelogram shape, formed by the base part 2 as abottom side and the frames 51 and 52 as both sides. A hair washing basinmoving up and down mechanism which moves up and down the hair washingbasin 1 along a moving up and down guide arm 54 is provided at an upperpart of the frame column, and a seat moving up and down mechanism whichmoves up and down the hair washing seat 20 along the frame 51 isprovided at a lower part of the frame column.

[0007] The hair washing basin moving up and down mechanism placed at theupper part of the frame column is provided with a hair washing basinhydraulic cylinder 4, one end of which is connected rotatably to a frame53 positioned approximately at the center of the frame 51 and the otherend of which is connected rotatably to a hair washing basin movablebracket 5, and a hair washing basin movable bracket 5 moving up and downalong the moving up and down guide arm 54 according to driving of thehair washing hydraulic cylinder 4, to which the hair washing basin 1 isfixed. The seat moving up and down mechanism placed at the lower part ofthe frame column is provided with a seat hydraulic cylinder 6, one endof which is connected rotatably to the base part 2, and the other end ofwhich is connected rotatably to a seat movable bracket 8, and a seatmovable bracket 8 moving up and down along the frame 51 by slidingrollers 22 according to driving of the seat hydraulic cylinder 6, towhich the hair washing seat 20 is fixed via the seat support arm 7.

[0008] Next, moving up and down operations of the hair washing basin 1and the hair washing seat 20 of the hair washing apparatus constructedas above will be described with reference to FIG. 3.

[0009] First, as for the hair washing basin 1, when the person whoperforms hair washing steps on hair washing basin moving up and downswitches 9 a and 9 b, to turn the switch ON, the hair washing hydrauliccylinder 4 is pressurized or depressurized by the hydraulic unit 30, andthen the hair washing movable bracket 5 is moved up and down along themoving up and down guide arm 54 in accordance with extension andshortening of the hair washing hydraulic cylinder 4, whereby the hairwashing basin 1 is moved up and down. Further, as for the hair washingseat 20, when the person who performs hair washing steps on seat movingup and down switches 21 a and 21 b for moving up and down the seat, toturn the switch ON, the seat hydraulic cylinder 6 is pressurized ordepressurized by the hydraulic unit 30, and then the seat movablebracket 8 is moved up and down along the frame 51 by the sliding rollers22 in accordance with extension and shortening of the seat hydrauliccylinder 6, whereby the hair washing seat 20 is moved up and down.

[0010] As described above, the prior art hair washing apparatus controlstime of operating the respective moving up and down switches, thereby tomove the hair washing basin 1 and the hair washing seat 20 having amoving up and down mechanism, which is driven by the hydraulic unit 30,to desired positions, respectively, which results in that those can beadjusted according to height of the person who performs hair washingprocessing and height of the person under hair washing, respectively.

[0011] However, according to the above-described prior art hair washingapparatus, the hydraulic unit 30 is placed on the base part 2 of thehair washing unit 10, which results in a shape in which a base cover 3is protuberant so as to cover over the hydraulic unit 30, as shown inFIG. 2. The design is not preferable to a barber shop or a beauty salonwherein a design is seriously taken into consideration.

[0012] The present invention is made to solve the above-describedproblems, and aims to provide a hydraulic moving up and down type hairwashing apparatus, the design of which is preferable to a barber shop ora beauty salon.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

[0013] To solve the above-described problems, a hydraulic moving up anddown type hair washing apparatus according to a first aspect of thepresent invention comprises a hair washing unit having a hair washingbasin, at which hair washing processing is performed by a person whoperforms washing processing, and a hair washing seat connected to thehair washing unit, on which a person who receives a hair washingprocessing is seated, and moves up and down the respective hair washingbasin and the hair washing seat by a drive hydraulic unit, wherein thedrive hydraulic unit is provided at the outside of the hair washingapparatus body.

[0014] Therefore, it is possible to provide a hydraulic moving up anddown type hair washing apparatus which is preferable to a barber shop ora beauty salon in the design.

[0015] According to a hair washing apparatus of a second aspect of thepresent invention, the hair washing apparatus of the first aspectwherein, the drive hydraulic unit is arranged under the floor, in thevicinity of a position, at which the hair washing apparatus body isplaced, or contained in a cabinet which is placed on a floor face whichis away from the hair washing apparatus body, and pipe arrangementbetween the hair washing apparatus body and the drive hydraulic unit iscontained under the floor.

[0016] Therefore, pipe arrangement such as a hydraulic pipe can not beseen, thereby to obtain a fine external appearance.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0017]FIG. 1 is a cross sectional view of a hair washing apparatusaccording to a first embodiment of the present invention.

[0018]FIG. 2 is a front perspective view of a prior art hair washingapparatus.

[0019]FIG. 3 is a schematic view illustrating a construction of theprior art hair washing apparatus.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

[0020] Embodiment 1

[0021] Hereinafter, a hair washing apparatus according to a firstembodiment of the present invention will be described with reference toFIG. 1.

[0022]FIG. 1 is a cross sectional view of the hair washing appartusaccording to the first embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 2,the hair washing apparatus of the first embodiment comprises a hairwashing seat 20, on which a person under hair washing is seated, isconnected to a hair washing unit 10 having a hair washing basin 1, atwhich hair washing processing is performed by a person who performs hairwashing processing, and a cabinet 40, which is provided on the backsurface of the hair washing apparatus, containing a hydraulic unit 30which moves up and down the hair washing basin 1 and the hair washingseat 20.

[0023] Further, the hair washing unit 10 is provided with a hair washingbasin hydraulic cylinder 4 which moves up and down the hair washingbasin 1, a hair washing basin movable bracket 5, to which one end of thehair washing basin hydraulic cylinder 4 is rotatably connected and, towhich the hair washing basin 1 is attached, a seat hydraulic cylinder 6which moves up and down the hair washing seat 20, and a seat movablebracket 8, to which one end of the seat hydraulic cylinder 6 isrotatably connected and, to which the hair washing seat 20 is attachedvia a seat support arm 7. This hair washing unit 10 has the sameconstruction as that of the prior art hair washing apparatus.

[0024] The hydraulic unit 30 which moves up and down the hair washingseat 20 and the hair washing basin 1 is provided inside the cabinet 40.The hydraulic unit 30 comprises a tank 31, an electromagnetic value 32and a hydraulic pump 33. The electromagnetic value 32 is connected tothe hair washing basin hydraulic cylinder 4 via a hydraulic pipe 34 fora hair washing basin cylinder, as well as to the seat hydraulic cylinder6 via a hydraulic pipe 35 for a seat cylinder. When the hair washingbasin moving up and down switch 9 or the seat moving up and down switch21 is operated, oil is delivered to the hair washing basin hydrauliccylinder 4 or the seat hydraulic cylinder 6, respectively via thehydraulic oil pipe 34 for a hair washing basin cylinder or the hydraulicoil pipe 35 for a seat cylinder by the electromagnetic value 32, wherebya hydraulic cylinder corresponding to the operated switch is moved upand down.

[0025] Further, the hydraulic oil pipe 34 for a hair washing basincylinder and the hydraulic pipe 35 for a seat cylinder are arrangedunder a floor from the respective hydraulic cylinders of the hairwashing unit 10 to the hydraulic unit 30 inside the cabinet 40, wherebythe pipes can not be seen from the outside. Further, not only therespective cylinder hydraulic pipes 34 and 35 but also a water supplypipe 11, a hot water supply pipe 12, and a drain pipe 13 are arrangedunder a floor from the hair washing unit 10, whereby water or hot waterrequired for hair washing processing and exhausted water can not be seenfrom the outside.

[0026] Here, descriptions of moving up and down operations of the hairwashing basin 1 and the hair washing seat 20 constructed as above willbe omitted, since the operations are the same as those in the prior arthair washing apparatus.

[0027] As described above, according to the hair washing apparatus ofthe first embodiment of the present invention, the hydraulic unit 30which moves up and down the hair washing basin 1 and the hair washingseat 20 is provided not inside the hair washing unit 10 nor under thehair washing seat 20 but inside the cabinet 40 placed on the backsurface of the hair washing apparatus, which results in that there is noobstacle around a foot place of the hair washing apparatus. Therefore,it is possible to provide a hydraulic moving up and down type hairwashing apparatus which is preferable to a beauty salon in the design.

[0028] Further, according to the hair washing apparatus of the firstembodiment, the respective cylinder hydraulic pipes 34 and 35, and thewater supply pipe 11 are arranged under the floor, pipe arrangement cannot been seen, thereby to obtain an effect of fine external appearance.

What is claimed is:
 1. A hydraulic moving up and down type hair washingapparatus comprises a hair washing unit having a hair washing basin, atwhich hair washing processing is performed by a person who performswashing processing, and a hair washing seat connected to the hairwashing unit, on which a person who receives a hair washing processingis seated, and moves up and down the respective hair washing basin andthe hair washing seat by a drive hydraulic unit, wherein the drivehydraulic unit is provided at the outside of the hair washing apparatusbody.
 2. The hair washing apparatus of claim 1 wherein, the drivehydraulic unit is arranged under the floor, in the vicinity of aposition, at which the hair washing apparatus body is placed, orcontained in a cabinet which is placed on a floor face which is awayfrom the hair washing apparatus body, and pipe arrangement between thehair washing apparatus body and the drive hydraulic unit is containedunder the floor.